In truth, the ceremony starts about 20 minutes before the sun sets.
What is it we can do about it this day before the sun sets?' " Ms. Berry said, wolfing down a muffin in a coffee shop a few blocks from the White House.
That fleeting period of time shortly before the sun sets, or after it rises, when shadows grow longer and everything appears to glow lends us an opportunity to reconsider the world around us, recast in warm color.
The Transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet can be seen passing across the sun, will take place on June 5, the first time since 2004, though North America will get only a quick glimpse before the sun sets.
Consumed in frightening quantities by everyone from Vietnam's newly rich to its hard-working street vendors, bia hoi, sometimes called fresh beer but literally meaning gas beer, is an unpasteurized, unpreserved brew made before the sun rises, and often imbibed before the sun sets.
Before the sun sets, during "that brief time between day and night when great plans are hatched and all things seem possible," they've come up with it: a "full-service spa" for black women, offering -- in addition to the usual Tae-Bo and seaweed wraps -- "private, satisfying, safe sex at an affordable price, thoughtfully delivered".
WELL before midsummer, the sun sets late over Paris.
But emotionally, the game seemed out of reach in its first half-hour, well before the sun set, even before some of the fans arrived.
ABU DHABI — Long before the sun set at Abu Dhabi's twilight Grand Prix, the day had ended for the driver who had until then had a nearly flawless season.
